The comic you almost purchased but did not and now have regrets?

[SupergirlDC1959]

Name as many as you want and tell us how much it was priced at the time you decided to let it pass.

 

For me I remember seen a nice Amazing Fantasy 15 in a CGC 3.0 and it looked very nice for the grade ended up passing on it it was a 3000$ (Canadian) asking price....wish I had it now that is for sure.

 

I use to own a low grade Amazing Spider-Man #1 non graded looked pretty beat up but had only paid a few hundred dollars for it and sold it fast to finance some school stuff ended up selling for 500$ (Canadian). Now it would be a easy 1500$ to 2000$ (U.S) comic for sure.

 

[fmaz]

A nice looking copy of Amazing Spider-Man #1 for $100. Memory is a bit hazy but I recall it as a mid-grade copy. Although I prefer to tell the story as a "near mint copy"

 

Was at my monthly comic book "convention" at the local Holiday Inn with my dad and he usually let me spend $25 per show and no matter how much I begged he wouldn't let me spend the extra $75. I have no idea why. It was 1974 and I was 8 years old at the time. So for all my fellow parents out there today, if your 8 year old told you he/she needed $500 for some bit of collectible nonsense you don't really understand, you'd do it, right?

 

Uh...I rest my case? Seems like my dad gets smarter and smarter as I get older.

 

In all seriousness? As much as I wish I had the book? We cherish the story more probably after all these years.

[TheAvenger80]

There was a baseball card show I would go to as a kid at the local mall. Now, I don't know if this is 100% accurate, but I remember one guy being set up with comics and he had a DD1 for $8. It was fairly low grade, probably a 2.0. This is a memory I've carried with me but am not 100% about the details, I've just always regretted not picking it up, but it was most likely because I couldn't afford it. In fact, I have a hazy feeling that I asked my parents for the money but they said no.

[Point Five]

...but had only paid a few hundred dollars for it and sold it fast to finance some school stuff ended up selling for 500$ (Canadian)...

I think this is the key reason no one should beat themselves up about past steals that they missed. Even if you managed to score some ridiculous deal on a GA or SA key twenty years ago, there's a fairly good chance that you (the twenty-years-ago you) would have ended up selling it off prematurely along the way anyway.

 

 

 

[Ken Aldred]

...but had only paid a few hundred dollars for it and sold it fast to finance some school stuff ended up selling for 500$ (Canadian)...

I think this is the key reason no one should beat themselves up about past steals that they missed. Even if you managed to score some ridiculous deal on a GA or SA key twenty years ago, there's a fairly good chance that you (the twenty-years-ago you) would have ended up selling it off prematurely along the way anyway.

 

 

 

The 'cash-strapped student' situation is especially common.

 

+ 1 for me there.

[G.A.tor]

a couple of years ago I passed on the action 1 cgc 9.0 (it was not quite a 9.0 cgc then) for about 1/3 the price it recently auctioned for

[Johnny U]

a couple of years ago I passed on the action 1 cgc 9.0 (it was not quite a 9.0 cgc then) for about 1/3 the price it recently auctioned for

 

[Gotham Kid]

why ?

[G.A.tor]

why ?

wasn't ready to drop 7 figs on a comic

[Timeless icons]

haha that's easy. Bob Storms called me some years ago to let me know that he had my grail. 9.2 hulk 1 for 28k. Too many things going on at the time so I had to pass..

[uchiha101]

I had a set of comics that I regret not buying tos 39-99 6.0+ condition for 800 dollars plus free shipping now it's worth so much more

[uchiha101]

and he sold it a month later when I had enough money to buy it

[Anttheknee]

It was probably around 1976 or 1977. I was at a show in NYC and a dealer had a stack of X-Men #94 on his table, all in NM condition, which had a price of $6.00 each. I was going to offer him $50.00 for ten of them but I didn't want to carry them around with me, so, I decided to go back to his table later when I would be leaving the show. I forgot to go back when I left.

[G.A.tor]

haha that's easy. Bob Storms called me some years ago to let me know that he had my grail. 9.2 hulk 1 for 28k. Too many things going on at the time so I had to pass..

[white_rushin]

Nothing major I can think of. I'm a newer collector though.

 

I remember seeing a Detective Comics #298 in a bin for $5 or so and I passed on it at the time.

 

It's more like there were books I could have purchased a year or two ago that aren't worth it now because of the hype. Oh well.

[Heronext]

a couple of years ago I passed on the action 1 cgc 9.0 (it was not quite a 9.0 cgc then) for about 1/3 the price it recently auctioned for

 

I would forgive myself for that one. Could you have pulled off the magic trick that turned it into a 9.0?

[G.A.tor]

a couple of years ago I passed on the action 1 cgc 9.0 (it was not quite a 9.0 cgc then) for about 1/3 the price it recently auctioned for

 

I would forgive myself for that one. Could you have pulled off the magic trick that turned it into a 9.0?

one will never know

[SupergirlDC1959]

That would give me hearth burn for sure!!! Was it the one that ended up selling for over 3$ million dollars this year or the other one that sold in the 2$ million dollar range?

[G.A.tor]

That would give me hearth burn for sure!!! Was it the one that ended up selling for over 3$ million dollars this year or the other one that sold in the 2$ million dollar range?

The 3.3 mil copy... But it wasnt a 9.0 when I was offered.

[jaybes]

That would give me hearth burn for sure!!! Was it the one that ended up selling for over 3$ million dollars this year or the other one that sold in the 2$ million dollar range?

The 3.3 mil copy... But it wasnt a 9.0 when I was offered.

 

Is this implying what I think it's implying?